"The first step is to chop the chocolate and let it melt..." Yue Yong, wearing an apron and a headscarf on her head, stood in front of the kitchen stove and read a book called "Essential Valentine's Day Secrets for Girls—" "Chocolate Chapter", he kept muttering something in a low voice.
There are several square pieces of black chocolate on the chopping board in front of Yue Yong, and raw materials such as milk, sugar, eggs, and cream are also prepared on the side.
There was a fire on the stove, and a small iron pot was filled with boiling hot water. On the other side are molds, colanders, egg beaters and other tools.
"Yueyue, do you need help?"
Nichiro opened the kitchen door and slowly walked in while controlling his electric wheelchair.
"What? No, no need!" Yue Yong quickly turned around and hid the book in his hand behind his back, and defended: "I was just a little hungry, so I came to cook some noodles! I didn't want to at all. Make some Valentine’s Day chocolates or something!”
"That's it... If that's the case, it seems like you don't need help." Nichiro said with a smile, and then controlled the wheelchair to turn around and slowly left towards the door. However, when Nichiro walked to the door, he suddenly Thinking of something, he turned around and reminded with a smile.
"Well, the secret book behind you that seems to be a ramen tutorial seems to have been ignited by the fire on the stove. I think it's better to put out this situation quickly."
After saying that, Nichiwa controlled the wheelchair and left the kitchen and gently closed the door.
Yue Yong, who stayed in the kitchen, saw that only a corner of the secret book in her hand had been burned, and she couldn't help but turn on the faucet on the side and put the still burning secret book in her hand under the water.
The result was... Although the fire of the secret book was extinguished,... only a corner of the secret book was destroyed by the water.
Looking at the secret book in her hand that was so rotten that the fonts were blurred, Yue Yong was silent for a long time before throwing it into the trash can nearby. After clearing her throat, she pretended to be calm and comforted herself:
"Ahem, it's okay! It doesn't matter at all! All the materials are ready! It's very simple! The chocolate is also ready-made, you just need to find a way to put these raw materials in!"
After saying that, a cold light flashed across Yue Yong's sleeves, and then a kunai appeared in Yue Yong's right hand.
"Step one...Chop!"
After some operations, the chocolate was cut into small pieces by the kunai, and of course... it was also attached to the chopping board.
"Then, melt!" As she said that, Yue Yong threw the chocolate and the broken pieces of the chopping board into the boiling water.
"Then, merge!"
Basically, Yue Yong threw all the ingredients and seasonings on the stove into the boiling pot.
Yue Yong wiped her sweat, looked at the pot of hodgepodge in front of her, and smiled easily. "It's surprisingly simple. It's no different from hot pot."
"Then, the next step is to make it the desired shape."
As she said that, Yue Yong lowered her head to look for the mold she had just prepared on the stove. However, only then did Yue Yong realize that she had already thrown the mold into the pot.
"Well, it's more convenient this way."
After saying this in a low voice, Yue Yong turned off the fire on the stove, then took down the iron pot with a towel and put it into the freezer of the refrigerator nearby.
After doing all this, Yue Yong nodded and said to himself: "Then...just wait for the cooling to complete."
Half an hour later…
Looking at the indescribable chocolate and the mixed solids of various materials in the iron pot that was frozen into ice cubes, Yue Yong fell silent again.
"Why... every step is correct, but what appears in the end is different from what they made?" Yue Yong held the cigarette rod in her mouth, folded her hands and murmured with a frown.
After thinking hard for a long time, Yue Yong suddenly thought of something.
"That's right! There must be too much water!"
So, Yue Yong, who firmly believed that she would make no mistakes, started to try again. This time, Yue Yong only filled half the pot of water.
So, an hour later...
Looking at the unknown solid solidified in the pot that was slightly less watery than the ice cubes that were evident just now, Yue Yong smiled easily, "Really, I'm such a fool. It turns out that you can't add water to things like chocolate! That secret book was wrong from the beginning! Really, it’s a good thing it was burned.”
So, for the third time, Yue Yong did not add a drop of water to the pot, but put it directly on the stove, and then put the dark chocolate in.
This time it started smoothly. The chocolate heated by the fire quickly melted into the iron pot.
Looking at the gradually melting chocolate, Yue Yong looked happy, and then quickly cracked the eggs and put them in, then put the cream in and a lot of white sugar, and finally poured in I ate half a carton of milk.
"We can definitely succeed this time!"
After Yue Yong turned off the fire on the stove, she mixed the ingredients thoroughly with a spoon, and then put the iron pot into the refrigerator again.
Half an hour later…
"It's...successful! The next step is to cut it into the desired shape with a kunai!" Yue Yong exclaimed as he looked at the chocolate wrapped in an iron pot in front of him.
But just when Yue Yong took out the kunai and prepared to split the chocolate, she thought of something, and then carefully broke off a piece, "Just in case... let's try the taste a little bit..."
After saying that, Yue Yong put the chocolate in her hand into her mouth and chewed it twice tentatively.
"Puff puff puff!" Yue Yong, who tasted the five flavors of life from her chocolate, quickly spat out the chocolate in her mouth, "It tastes so bad..."
"But..." Yue Yong looked at the iron pot in front of her and couldn't tell whether it was an iron pot filled with chocolate or a chocolate covered iron pot and continued to mutter, "Since there is no problem with the solidification, it means that my steps are correct, so in the end it is just seasoning. There’s a problem…”
After saying that, Yue Yong started making her own chocolate again.
[It seems that he didn’t consider whether he could send it out...] Hiwa, who secretly looked at the kitchen through the crack in the door, smiled helplessly and thought to himself, [and... the first step was wrong, I should have put the chocolate into the container. , put the container into the hot water that is boiling slowly, and prevent water from entering the container containing the chocolate, and let the temperature of the hot water melt the chocolate little by little through the container, right? But, forget it, it’s not impossible to follow Yueyue’s method... Compared to putting melted chocolate into the mold and letting it solidify, she is still more accustomed to using kunai...]
While thinking about it, Nichirin gently closed the kitchen door, turned the wheelchair and left slowly without making a sound.
…
In the dumpling shop, after several hours of hard work, Jiang Cheng finally ate all the chocolate until dusk.
"Nilun, there is no need for today's dinner..." Jiang Cheng lay on the table with a look of despair, "Chocolate...chocolate, now I feel like I can taste chocolate no matter what I eat...ah, my stomach is good Uncomfortable…”
"It's really amazing," Nichiwa praised with a smile, "It only took one afternoon to eat up so much chocolate."
"Ah... I really want to die... burp~" After burping, Jiang Cheng quickly covered his mouth, "Even the burps tasted like chocolate, and the nauseating feeling came back from his stomach..."
"Kasan..." Haruta looked at Nichiwa pitifully, "I want chocolate too, even if it comes from my mother..."
"I've already eaten two bunches of candied haws today. I've already consumed enough sugar." Rilun refused with a smile, "If you eat anything sweet like that again, your teeth will break."
"Brother Jiang Cheng can only eat so much chocolate!" Qingta pointed at Jiang Cheng who was lying on the table with a painful look on his face and shouted angrily.
"It's so annoying! You brat!" Jiang Cheng rolled his eyes and yelled, "Don't mention those three words in front of me again! Just hearing it made my stomach twitch!"
"Lord Jiang Cheng! We are sending chocolates!" An unknown unknown object wrapped in bedding and covered in black fell directly in front of Jiang Cheng from the sky.
"And my chocolate!" Another unknown, dark object wrapped in a quilt fell directly in front of Jiang Cheng from the sky.
"I heard that Mr. Jiangcheng said today that he would eat all the chocolates he received, so we have already covered our bodies with chocolate!" the dark Waidōmaru shouted.
"And me! No matter here or there, even places like that are all covered in chocolate!" Kuzu Ye, who was also dark, shouted.
"Come on! Lord Jiangcheng! You can eat it directly on the street!" Wadomaru and Kuzuye shouted at the same time.
"Why you two!" Jiang Cheng covered his mouth and said angrily, rolling his eyes, "Where did you get the news from? It was too fast!"
"Sama Seimei told us!" Waidōmaru, who was lying on the quilt, explained aloud.
"I knew that sister-in-law was definitely spying on Yoshihara..." Jiang Cheng clenched his fists and said through gritted teeth.
"Don't worry about so much! Hurry up! Eat! My body temperature has melted the chocolate! Please ask Mr. Jiang Cheng to melt me! You can eat it from anywhere!" Kuzu Ye, who was also lying on the quilt, was excited. shouted.
"Can I go down?!" Jiang Cheng shouted and kicked the two of them to the end of the sky at the same time.
"After all, they are girls, those two children." Nichiwa said with a smile, "You will be hurt if you are always treated like this, right?"
"I don't admit that those monsters that have been around for thousands of years are girls!" Jiang Cheng turned around and retorted angrily, "Besides, they are no longer monsters, they have completely become perverts! After all, who taught Their random methods are really infuriating!"
…
"Master, we failed!" Kuzuha and Outodomaru knelt down on one knee in front of a woman with long lavender hair wearing red-framed glasses and shouted.
"So you are still too young! Compared to my last apprentice, you two are simply too young! Sa, let you see what I do, master!"
As she spoke, the woman jumped directly into the bucket filled with melted chocolate and covered her whole body with chocolate. Then she took the quilt on the side and wrapped herself up.
"Sa, that's it! You two just take advantage of the night and throw me like this on the bed of Gin-san, the owner of Kabukicho's Master House! Do you understand?!"
"Understood!"×2
…
Yoshihara, after an afternoon of trying, Yue Yong finally made chocolate that was edible. He divided it and the iron pot into heart shapes with kunai.
After packing, Yue Yong remembered the most important question.
How should...how should I send it out
…
After dinner, Yue Yong knelt down in front of the dining table, just like she did at breakfast.
"Well..." Riyun said with a smile, "Yueyue, there are only four hours left until twelve o'clock. If there is anything else that must be done today, then go quickly."
"Today's patrol has been arranged!" Yue Yong replied quickly.
"No, that's not what I meant. But... forget it..." As he said that, Niwa said to Haruta who was standing aside, "Haruta, push mom out."
"oh… "
…
At eleven o'clock at night, Yue Yong finally made up her mind and came to Jiang Cheng's door. She hesitated for more than half an hour before pushing Jiang Cheng's door open and stepping in.
"Oh, Yueyue, what's wrong?" Jiang Cheng, who was still suffering from eating too much chocolate, asked weakly while lying on the table.
"Ah, it's nothing." Yue Yong replied calmly.
"If it's okay, let me take a break. After eating so much chocolate, my stomach feels so uncomfortable and painful..." Jiang Cheng sighed and said,
"Oh...oh..." After responding twice, Yue Yong turned around and walked towards the door. At the same time, she said angrily in her heart: [Why did you go out like this! What on earth am I here to do!]
"Wait…"
"What...what's wrong?" Yue Yong turned her head and tried her best to put away the unnatural look on her face.
"Bring it here." Jiang Cheng stretched out his hand towards Yue Yong and said casually.
"what?"
"chocolate."
"Huh? Why should I give you chocolate!" Yue Yong shouted with her eyes rolled.
"Are you not prepared?" Jiang Cheng said in surprise, "I thought there would be chocolates to express gratitude. Don't you always say that I am Yoshiwara's savior? Well, forget it, forget it if you don't have it. Good night."
As soon as Jiang Cheng finished speaking, a heart-shaped chocolate fell on Jiang Cheng's table.
Jiang Cheng looked at the chocolate beside him for a moment, then looked up in the direction of the door and was about to say something, but found that the door had been closed, and Yue Yong seemed to have left.
"This year's Valentine's Day..." Jiang Cheng unwrapped the chocolate, turned his head and glanced at the alarm clock on the wall that was one minute away from twelve o'clock, and took a big bite, "...it ended successfully... But Having said that, this chocolate... tastes really bad... "
Outside the door, Yue Yong leaned on the wall, listening to the sound of Jiang Cheng chewing chocolate from inside the room, and raised the corners of his mouth slightly.
(Valentine's Day - End)
(End of chapter)